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It's always been a great survival value for people to believe they belong to a superior tribe. That's just in human relationships.

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The growth of a naturalist is like the growth of a musician or athlete: excellence for the talented, lifelong enjoyment for the…
Thirty trillion dollars worth of services, scot-free to humanity, every year.
Biophilia: the innate pleasure from living abundance and diversity as manifested by the human impulse to imitate Nature with gardens.
Let us see how high we can fly before the sun melts the wax in our wings. About the ambitious pursuit of…
Biophilia, if it exists, and I believe it exists, is the innately emotional affiliation of human beings to other living organisms.
Known as the biosphere to scientists and as the creation to theologians, all of life together consists of a membrane around earth…
No one knows the diversity in the world, not even to the nearest order of magnitude. ... We don't know for sure…
The cutting of primeval forest and other disasters, fueled by the demands of growing human populations, are the overriding threat to biological…
The worst thing that will probably happen-in fact is already well underway-is not energy depletion, economic collapse, conventional war, or the expansion…
Overall, the human brain is the most complex object known in the universe - known, that is, to itself.
The time has come to link ecology to economic and human development. When you have seen one ant, one bird, one tree,…
[The natural world cleans water, pollinates plants and provides pharmaceuticals, among many other gifts.] Thirty trillion dollars worth of services, scot-free to…

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It has yet to be proven that intelligence has any survival value. — Arthur C. Clarke
During periods of discontinuous, abrupt change, the essence of adaptation involves a keen sensitivity to what should be abandoned - not what… — Peter Drucker
What's the survival value of obsessing on a sunset? — Peter Watts
Thus, just as animals of many species, including man, are disposed to respond with fear to sudden movement or a marked change… — John Bowlby
When homo sapiens is changing, it will not be by the whole race gaining simultaneously whatever qualities better fit it for survival,… — Charles Galton Darwin
God exists, if only in the form of a meme with high survival value, or infective power, in the environment provided by… — Richard Dawkins
It is not clear that intelligence has any long-term survival value. — Stephen Hawking
Friendship is unnecessary, like philosophy, like art... It has no survival value; rather it is one of those things that give value… — C.S. Lewis
It's always been a great survival value for people to believe they belong to a superior tribe. That's just in human relationships. — E. O. Wilson
Diversity is a survival factor for the community itself. A community of a hundred million species can survive anything short of total… — Daniel Quinn
I have no duty to be anyone's Friend and no man in the world has a duty to be mine. No claims,… — C.S. Lewis
Has joy any survival value in the operations of evolution? I suspect that it does; I suspect that the morose and fearful… — Edward Abbey

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